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Philip Pullman (born 1946)
playwright, librarian, executive producer, audiobook narrator
- University of Oxford, Ysgol Ardudwy
Margaret Mahy (1936-2012)
librarian
- University of Canterbury, University of Auckland
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
philosopher, anthropologist, physicist, librarian, pedagogue, mathematician, philosopher of law
- University of Königsberg, Collegium Fridericianum
Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900)
linguist, librarian, historian of religion, historian, translator, mythographer, philologist, religious studies scholar, orientalist
- Leipzig University, Alte Nikolaischule (Leipzig)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
mathematician, jurist, physicist, philosopher, diplomat, historian, librarian, musicologist, translator, music theorist, diplomatician, poet, engineer, zoologist, archivist, biologist, geologist, policy advisor, philosopher of law, logician
- University of Altdorf, Leipzig University
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
poet, philosopher, historian, librarian, playwright, translator, journalist, physician, military physician, aesthetician
- Karlsschule Stuttgart, University of Jena